You keep stopping when you could be walking.

Let's just not nitpick over the password stuff.

Have not successfully completed fifteen runs in one month since June. I would like a high-five.

Distance: 3 miles

Duration: 25:28

Route: Rec Center
Temperature: 43°
Climate: clear & cool
Mood: anxious

Could have run outdoors with a jacket, it's nice. But just cool enough that I wanted to be indoors -- and that's how we do that.

Stretches: yes
Water: yes
Weight: 160 lbs.

Planks: yes
Push-ups: yes

Sit-Ups: yes

Monster Bash Playlist

I Lied to You - Miles Caton

Nightmares - A Flock of Seagulls

Dinner With Drac pt. 1 - John Zacherle

Dead Souls - Joy Division

Walking With a Ghost - Tegan & Sara

Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps

Horror Movies - Skyhooks

Seasons don't fear the reaper.

Look, if I can't run on a basic Saturday afternoon, I may as well hang it up. Let's run!

Distance: 3.1 miles
Duration: 30:05
Pace: 9:41
Route: Forest Hillovercast & damp Loop
Temperature: 54°
Climate: overcast & damp
Mood: okay
Weight: 175.5 lbs. (-1.5)

Weary run, underfed and overdressed. Here's how this needs to go: run either before or right after taking the boy to Saturday jazz. Don't wait, you'll just be hungry.

Intake

Breakfast: coffee (2x), Count Chocula w/milk

Lunch: ravioli, candy bar (wtf?)

Dinner: TBA

Monster Bash Playlist!

Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival

The Killing Moon - Echo & the Bunnymen

Halloween - Siouxsie & the Banshees

Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails

Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

Unmarked Helicopters - Soul Coughing

A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins

Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

I have heard Siouxie's Halloween more times in more places this season ... and I'd never heard it before this month!

Hurry, boy. It's waiting there for you.

The girl states the holidays have begun and now we must listen to Christmas music. I told her we have a baseball season to close first.

Last night we had lots of kids at the door for Halloween, it was a pleasure. Our children were across town, trick or treating with friends. The girl designed her own Benny's Burgers T-shirt so she could go as Eleven from Stranger Things.

Check #StrangerThings on Instagram. Some of the costumes are amazing, who knew there were so many Dustin trucker hats. Can't keep the David S. Pumpkins suits on the shelf, but there's all these red, white and blue trucker hats.

Let me say it again, she made that shirt. My daughter is a better artist than I have ever been, and that is a wild understatement. My son is already better at the drums than I ever was. And I never suggested that they do either of those things.

Distance: 3 miles
Route: Boulevard Loop

Brisk run, fast ... in spite of the moody music. All the emotions this season. The election, the World Series, the middle school. Work, play, plays. And yet, as a family we hang together very well. We spend so much time together, there is a lot of bickering, occasional shouting, but there's so much love here. I don't know how that happened.

Temperature: 52°
Climate: overcast and cool
Weight: 169.5 lbs (-0.5)
Goal: 165 lbs.
Mood: still anxious

This hat is too tight at times. Makes my head hurt. I need a different hat.

Stranger Things Playlist
Should I Stay Or Should I Go? - The Clash
Heroes - Peter Gabriel
I Melt With You - Modern English
Atmosphere - Joy Division
Waiting For a Girl Like You - Foreigner
Africa - Toto
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

This is Halloween.

No, I haven't wanted to run. And the snacking has begun. It was a long day, taking me from school to library to desk, to Lorain County in the rain and back, in a suit and tie. Arriving home I wanted to take a nap, but the weather is so nice, overcast and cool.

Checking my phone for music someone suggested the boy come with me, he asked if he could ride his bike. And that was an even better idea.

Distance: 3.3 miles
Avg Pace: 9:18
Route: Boulevard Loop

He asks me a lot about how I am able to run long distances. We talk about health and fitness. He extols the beauty and wonder of our city, and how nice all the people are that we pass. We stop and take pictures of that amazingly vast and grotesque annual yard display on Mayfield.

Temperature: 63°
Climate: cool with light rain
Weight: 157.5 lbs.
Mood: very positive, now.

We had a spelling bee my fifth grade year and I was eliminated first by leaving out the "o" in Halloween but I still enjoy the holiday.